The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto

The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto
A New York Times feature, with photos and an eye-witness account by the photographer, Getty Images' John Moore, of the last few moments of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto's life.

Astronomy Photo of the Day

Astronomy Picture of the Day : NASA
As a link-of-the-day site, I'm also drawn to other sites that publish on a daily basis.
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day produces stunning space photos day after day, with an explanation of what you're looking at. There's also an space photo archive, with daily photos that go back to June 15, 1995.

Thanks to Wired's Geek Dad blog for mentioning

Photos of Modern Slavery in Britain

Slave Britain gallery

Slavery still exists in the 21st Century Britain, even though it was legally abolished 200 years ago. The Slave Britain gallery has the stories and photographs from 8 people; 6 people bound in slavery and 2 modern-day abolitionists.
It's shocking and deplorable that slavery still exists in our "modern" society. Please take the time to view these pages, and sign the petition.

Today's Link source: popurls

How to take great travel photos

How to Take Travel Pictures Like a Pro

Summer is coming, and lots of people will be taking time off to go traveling to exotic destinations. Fodor's has lots of great ideas and tips for taking pictures when you're traveling.
There are tips from choosing a camera, filters and planning your itinerary to composition, lighting, and taking pictures of people, city vistas and churches.

Of course, the tips just might come in handy for photography buffs, even when they're not on vacation.

Today's Link source: del.icio.us

Plays Football in high school- without legs

Legless Football Player 3
Originally uploaded by T-Bisqit.

The Biggest Man on the Field

Today's link is an article by sports photographer, Thomas E Witte, about an assignment covering high school football player, Bobby Martin of Colonel White High School in Dayton, Ohio. Bobby Martin is a unique football player because he was born without legs, and uses his hands to get around.

As a struggling photojournalist, Witte writes about the process of getting the assignment, his struggle over how to cover this story with respect and accuracy, and the resulting success of his images in Sports Illustrated and beyond.

I think that Witte succeeds because his pictures really demonstrate the incredible skill, athleticism and toughness that Bobby Martin exhibits. The article also sheds some light on the workings of the business side of photojournalism.

Today's Link source: popurls

Inspiring portraits of children

Flashes of Hope is a non-profit that encourages professional photographers to create beautiful, uplifting portraits of terminally ill children. The photos are joyous and inspiring, and are such a wonderful tribute to these courageous young subjects as they fight cancer and other life threatening illnesses.

Deepest Secrets Revealed!!!

PostSecret
PostSecret is an online art-confessional. People write confessions on the front of a postcard and mail them in to get posted weekly on the website. Some confessions are scandalous, others banal, but the combination of text and images are often striking and creative examples of graphic design.

The 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winners

The Pulitzer Prizes - 2007 Winners

On Tuesday, April 17, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced. The Pulitzer Prize is awarded for excellence in Journalism (14 awards in 2007), and in Letters, Journalism and Music (7 awards in 2007). This is the best of the best of American writing, and the Pulitzers are the pinnacle for American journalists. Two special awards were awarded in 2007 to science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury and jazz saxophonist, John Coltrane.

Today's site is not just a list, the highlight of the site is that there are links to the Pulitzer winning works for most categories, including: editorial cartoons, feature photography, investigative journalism, editorial writing, and breaking news photography.

Create your own comics

ToonDoo - The Cartoon Strip Creator

ToonDoo is a new really easy way for you to create your own comic strips. You can upload your own photos, use some of their photos or drawings. Click and drag things around, then copy the code and put it on your website or blog.
Dead easy. Let the hilarity ensue.

Photo mag follow-up

As a result of yesterday's post, Linkjockey reader EvenMe (aka Brock Nicholson), posted some stuff on the JPG Magazine site, and he asked me to mention it.

EvenMe has a Main Page, and did work on several themes, including Entropy, Breakthrough and Beauty Redefined. It's funny to think that the wonderful old woman's photo is sponsored by the Suicide Girls.

Other Linkjockey readers, listen up! If you have links, projects, or topics that you'd like me to highlight, or if you'd like a link thrown up for your blog, then please write: linkjockey@gmail.com I'm here for you!

Peace.
Christopher Walks

Photography magazine meets Web 2.0

JPG Magazine: Themes

JPG is a real-world photography magazine that seems to be based on user-submitted pics and articles . Neat idea, but the proof is in the pudding, and... the photos are gorgeous and compelling! Users submit photos to a variety of categories, such as: Entropy, pictures of loved ones, Democracy, Danger, pictures of people working, pictures of music performance and the number 7. Registered users (free) vote on the best ones, and these make it into the magazine.

If I had some great photos, I'd submit them. The rewards aren't great for having your work published ($100 and a year's subscription), but the higher profile is probably worth it.

There isn't much advertising in the magazine at all, but if I was in advertising, I'd be contacting the artists that took these pictures, and licensing them like crazy. They're stunning!

Download a free copy of the magazine here.

Free Stock Photos

everystockphoto.com - your source for free photos

When I'm working on projects that need graphics, sometimes I need to use photos that I don't have.

everystockphoto.com is growing, and at the moment, they have over 1 million free, Creative Commons photos. Sure, you could just grab pictures from Google or you could pay for them from a stock photos company, but I think "free" and "legal" are important qualities, and don't have to be mutually exclusive.

everystockphoto.com is based in beautiful Vancouver, BC, Canada, as was the fantastic photo-posting site Flickr, before it was bought by Yahoo!.